Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been accused of “refusal to comply” after her mid-June action in the port of Malmö in southern Sweden, daily Citizenskan wrote on Wednesday.
According to the charge sheet, the 20-year-old activist refused to leave the scene of the environmental action and disobeyed police orders, the newspaper said.
In mid-June, Greta Thunberg took part in an action at Malmö harbor in collaboration with the organization “Da Tilpaga Framtitan” (“Demand the Future”), whose activists protested the use of fossil fuels and blocked entry and exit. Oil tankers.
“We are choosing not to be bystanders, and (by) physically shutting down fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future,” Greta Thunberg said in an Instagram post.
6 months imprisonment
The activist faces up to six months in prison, but the charge usually carries a fine, prosecutor Charlotte Ottesen told Sitzvensken.
According to the daily, a trial is scheduled for the end of July at the Malmö court.
“Unprecedented Betrayal”
At an unknown time, Greta Thunberg was only 15 years old when she sat in front of the Swedish Parliament for the first time on a Friday in August 2018 with a “School Strike for Climate” sign.
Within months, from Berlin to Sydney, from San Francisco to Johannesburg, young people followed suit and the Future Friday movement was born.
Beyond his climate strikes, the young activist continues to attack politicians and governments for their inaction on climate issues.
At the end of March, after the release of the latest summary of the UN panel of experts, the IPCC, he slammed the “unprecedented betrayal” of leaders.
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